IPv6 Number & Static

[psp83]

How many IPv6 addresses do we get with IDnet & how do you set a static one?

[Steve]

Thats the answer to the first question, Bill may know the second.

http://www.idnet.net/news/article.jsp?id=84

[psp83]

So we get 48 we could use?

If that's correct, how do we know them / find them out?

I'm trying to understand more about IPv6 & how to set a static IP in my router.

[psp83]

Another question as well. Maybe one for Bill.

Why does http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ipv6 tell me a different address than my router?

[Steve]

IPv6 is 'no NAT' so each device has a different external  IP address, TBB is seeing the address of the device your using to access it ie PC , phone etc. The router has it's own address obviously.

[Steve]

You make the dynamic IPv6 address static but I think a reboot etc may loose it. Not sure whether services like DynDNs work with IPv6

[pctech]

Removed as point has been made.

[Lance]

So we get 48 we could use?

No, you get 18,446,744,073,709,551,616! The 48 represents the 48-bit block (and that is about as far as my knowledge goes!

[Glenn]

You get 65,536 times that amount, Lance.

This gives you 65,536 subnets, each subnet consisting of 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 native IPv6 addresses

[Technical Ben]

 

As long as it does not break legacy apps that use the old IPv4... Oh, wait. 

[psp83]

You get 65,536 times that amount, Lance.

So it'll be Ok to get a few more PC's then?